Weekly Book List, October 26, 2009

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller (Duke University Press; 376 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the cultural history of the black dandy since such 18th-century figures as Julius Soubise, a freed slave and London fop who was known as Mungo Macaroni.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Childbirth, Midwifery, and Concepts of Time edited by

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